Reborn Divine Doctor: The Abandoned Girl's Legend

Chapter 973: Chapter 33: Between Life and Death, A New Life

On the official road, the carriage traveled smoothly, everything was silent under the night sky.

This sudden pain awakened Lan Cai’er from her sleep.

What happened?

Her stomach hurt intensely, and Lan Cai’er’s heart raced wildly. She felt a deep ache as if something was about to leave her.

Between her legs, there was a wet sensation.

”Sister Cai’er, what’s wrong?”

”I-I’m going to give birth.”

Lan Cai’er’s water broke, even though she was days away from her due date.

The unease in her heart grew more apparent.

”What should we do?” Aguduo, unmarried and naive, turned pale with fright, her voice alerting Dao Ge outside.

”What’s going on?”

Dao Ge eagerly asked beside the carriage.

Though Lan Cai’er agreed to return to the Xia Capital with him, she found him distasteful; throughout the journey, she only spoke with Aguduo and ignored Dao Ge, not allowing him on the carriage.

”Sister Cai’er is going to have the baby; I don’t know what to do.”

Aguduo opened the carriage door.

Dao Ge frowned, ready to board.

”Wait, don’t come up. I can give birth by myself. I want to wait purely and sincerely for Yan Jiu to come back.”

Lan Cai’er raised her voice; her face flushed red with resolution, her eyes like sharp blades piercing Dao Ge’s heart.

Even now, she remembered she was that man’s wife.

Dao Ge only felt a dull ache in his heart, unable to distinguish if it was envy or bitterness. In the end, he still didn’t get on the carriage.

”You take care of her, I’ll order people to set up camp and prepare hot water.”

Aguduo panicked, knowing she wasn’t a midwife, regretting that she hadn’t dragged a midwife along before departing.

”Sister Cai’er, hang on; I actually have experience helping deliver. Last time in the Ancient Forest, I helped an old tiger deliver her cubs.” Aguduo could only brace herself, urging Lan Cai’er to lie down.

Hmm, a mother tiger, giving birth should be similar to a tiger having cubs.

Lan Cai’er tried to muster a smile to ease Aguduo, but the wrenching pain in her abdomen gradually exhausted her consciousness. If only he were here now.

”Sister Cai’er, don’t fall asleep; listen to me, the baby is coming out.” Aguduo already saw the baby and reminded Lan Cai’er while carefully guiding it out.

In the twilight of life and death, Lan Cai’er’s tear-filled eyes grew blurry, recalling when Yan Jiu was still there.

At that time, she was newly pregnant.

Yan Jiu sat beside her, clumsily wanting to hear their child’s heartbeat.

”Yan Jiu, do you want a son or a daughter?” Lan Cai’er teased.

She thought most men preferred sons.

”I want a daughter, just one, like you.”

Yan Jiu couldn’t bear her hardship, knowing her love for martial arts, wouldn’t let her suffer twice through the difficulty of childbirth in ten months.

He wanted a daughter, like Lan Cai’er, spirited and adorable, and he would protect both mother and daughter well.

Lan Cai’er promised with a smile.

Yet here today, as the child was about to be born,

Lan Cai’er regretted.

She wanted a son, a child like Yan Jiu, so when grown, the child could find his father.

Suddenly, an emptiness beneath her, as if something was released.

Lan Cai’er let out a blood-curdling scream.

Soon, the baby’s loud cries echoed.

”Sister Cai’er, the baby is born.”

Aguduo, her hands covered in blood, didn’t care about it, crying in joy.

Outside the carriage, Dao Ge, who had stood still for a long time, relaxed his tense body, his fists clenched then opened instantly.

Lan Cai’er weakly blinked her eyes, softly speaking.

”Is it a boy or a girl?”

”It’s a healthy boy, very beautiful.”

Aguduo cleaned off the newborn boy and carefully wrapped him in a clean quilt, placing him next to Lan Cai’er.

The baby was quiet. Once placed beside his mother, he stopped crying, snuggling up to Lan Cai’er.

”Yan Jiu, do you see, this is our child. His name is Jiunian.”

The name, Lan Cai’er hadn’t had time to decide with Yan Jiu on their way back to Daxia. She had thought if it was a girl, to name her Jiusi, and if it were a boy, to name him Jiunian.

Lan Cai’er cradled the child, listening to his strong heartbeat, determinedly saying.

”Jiunian, Mother believes that one day, your father will come back. From now on, we mother and son will depend on each other, waiting together.”

Lan Cai’er said this, finally fainting from exhaustion.

The baby, with star-like big eyes, looked at this brand-new world innocently.

At the entrance of the Demon World, a star was similarly rising.

Beneath the Emperor Prison Demon River, stretched over dozens of miles, a glow like fireflies appeared faintly, weak but tenacious.

Days later, Ye Lingyue received letters forwarded by Peace Hall, one after another.

The first was from Princess Qingfeng, the second from Lan Cai’er.

Princess Qingfeng and Feng Lan were well, the couple buying a manor in a well-fengshui town in Daxia, preparing to restart Feng Residence.

In Lan Cai’er’s letter, she informed Ye Lingyue she had a godson, Yan Jiunian.

In the letter, Lan Cai’er also stated that she hoped that after Yan Jiunian turned three, she wished to send Jiunian to Lonely Moon Sea to learn martial arts.

”Unexpectedly, Yan Jiu remains missing. It has also been hard for Sister Cai’er and the child.” Ye Lingyue murmured to herself.

”Wife, what are you secretly looking at?”

A head popped up in front of Ye Lingyue, clearly dissatisfied with being neglected.

”What can I look at? Everything is because of you. How many characters did you learn from what I taught you last night?” Ye Lingyue grumbled, pinching Little Di Shen’s chubby cheek.

Since returning from Moon City, Ye Lingyue resumed her life as a little miscellaneous servant.

She saw that Little Di Shen hadn’t learned to recognize characters, so she tried to teach him.

”Learning characters is hard.” Little Di Shen pouted. ”But if Wife would promise that after I learn a character, you’d give me a ’bite,’ I’ll study hard.”

The child’s genius was indeed overestimated. After all, he had just been born.

Ye Lingyue sighed.

”Alright, I promise you.”

Upon hearing this, Little Di Shen’s frowny face turned into a sunny day doll.

”I’ve learned all the characters in this book, Wife, let me count how many ’bites’ you owe me.”

What!

Learned them all?

Ye Lingyue stared at the ”Lonely Moon Sea Brief History” in Little Di Shen’s hands, her mouth gaped wide, unable to close for a while.

She suddenly realized she’d been tricked by this little guy again,

Little Di Shen stood on tiptoe, took a bite of Ye Lingyue, and dashed away.

”Wife, I’m going to cultivate, see you tonight.”

When Ye Lingyue was not paying attention, he deftly tucked Lan Cai’er’s letter into his small jacket.